The official press release from the publisher says it all: Award-winning Canadian author, and host of The Worldshapers podcast, Edward Willett, is joining the Tuscany Bay Books family in 2026 with his The Helix War series. Tuscany Bay Books will be re-releasing new editions of the first two books of the series, Marseguro, which won the 2009 Aurora Award, honoring Canadian science …
Available again: my modern-day Civil War-themed middle-grade ghost story The Haunted Horn
Put this under the category of “things I’ve meant to do for a long time”: I finally published (under my Endless Sky Books imprint) a new edition of The Haunted Horn, a modern-day middle-grade ghost …
Shards of Excalibur audiobooks available again, and this time, in many more places
The Shards of Excalibur audiobooks, narrated by the wonderful Elizabeth Klett, are now available again after being off the market for a short while. Best of all, while they’re once more on Audible.com and Audible.ca, you …
Marseguro and Terra Insegura find a new home, and the long-delayed third book in the series will finally come out!
The official press release from the publisher says it all: Award-winning Canadian author, and host of The Worldshapers podcast, Edward Willett, is joining the Tuscany Bay Books family in 2026 with his The Helix War series. Tuscany Bay Books …
New edition of Magebane now available!
It’s been quite the year for reprints of some of my older novels, thanks to modern technology, and now there’s another: Magebane, the stand-alone steampunk-tinged fantasy I originally wrote for DAW Books, under the pseudonym …
A new edition of my first DAW Books science fiction novel, Lost in Translation
Fairly hard on the heels of the new edition of my second novel, The Dark Unicorn, I’ve now released a new edition of the first of my novels published by DAW Books in New York. …
A new edition of my award-shortlisted YA novel The Dark Unicorn available now!
I’ve been meaning to create a new edition of my second novel, The Dark Unicorn, for a long time, and I finally did it, bringing it out in paperback and ebook (and AI-narrated audiobook) through …
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A new edition of my first DAW Books science fiction novel, Lost in Translation
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Fairly hard on the heels of the new edition of my second novel, The Dark Unicorn, I’ve now released a new edition of the first of my novels published by DAW Books in New York. Lost in Translation was first published by Five Star Books in hardcover, strictly for the library market. DAW picked it …
Final Shapers of Worlds anthology has been out for a while now . . .
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
- 6 months ago
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I really can’t believe I neglected to highlight this one when it came out! Shapers of Worlds Volume V is, of course, the fifth (and final) installment in a series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers. (Which, by the way, was once again a finalist for …
New Kickstarter to support Shadowpaw Press titles succeeds
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
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November 17, 2024
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The Kickstarter to support three of the titles Shadowpaw Press is publishing this fal, two science fiction novels and one fantasy, funded at $1,805 of the $1,500 CDN goal. Thanks to everyone who kicked in! You can still be part of it! Kickstarter now accepts late pledges. Here’s the link: One fantasy, two science fiction …
FUNDED! Kickstarter for Shapers of Worlds Volume V succeeds
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
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May 9, 2024
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This year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, succeeded, reaching 118% of the $12,000 goal–$14.266. That means this year’s anthology, featuring stories by Brad C. Anderson, Edo van Belkom, J. …
Available now: Shapers of Worlds Volume IV
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Podcast, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
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January 28, 2024
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Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to multiple sources. When it launched on January 23, it was, for a while, the #1 release on Amazon in Science …
New books from Shadowpaw Press
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Podcast, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
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December 31, 2023
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My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, release on January 23, with The Headmasters by Mark Morton releasing two weeks later, on …
Julie Czerneda and I talk about our latest novels
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March 5, 2023
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Enjoy this conversation between Julie Czerneda and me about our latest novels from DAW Books–mine The Tangled Stars and hers To Each This World. This was supposed to be video from start to finish but the gods of the Internet had other ideas, so there’s a long audio-only portion in the middle, but the conversation …
The Space-Time Continuum: Neologisms
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Featured in Slider, Science Fiction Columns, Writing and Editing
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February 18, 2023
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Here’s my latest Space-Time Continuum column from the January 2023 issue of the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild’s magazine, Freelance. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass Humpty Dumpty, noted wall-sitter and …
Now available: my 12th novel for DAW Books, The Tangled Stars
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Writing and Editing
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November 12, 2022
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The Tangled Stars, my far-future humorous space opera from DAW Books, is now available everywhere in ebook and audiobook (narrated by Wayne Mitchell). For an introduction to the main characters, check out “Thibauld’s Tale” in Shapers of Worlds Volume II, the second of the anthologies I’ve Kickstarted featuring authors who were guest on my podcast, …
Shapers of Worlds Volume III now available!
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
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October 11, 2022
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Shapers of Worlds Volume III, the third anthology I’ve Kickstarted that features science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, has now officially been released upon the world. This handy link provides links to many sources of the ebook, paperback, and hardcover: books2read.com/shapersofworlds3 You can also get …
Enjoy readings by the Guests of Honor (including me) of When Words Collide 2022
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Featured in Slider, Writing and Editing
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August 12, 2022
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As one of the Guests of Honor for When Words Collide 2022, I was given the opportunity to read some of my work alongside fellow GoHs Susanna Kearsley and Terry Brooks (the fourth, Hank Phillippi Ryan, wasn’t able to make this reading). The readings were livestreamed and the recording remains available on YouTube. Listen to …
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